A Rakes Progress

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Glue hinges to 'door' and fill in gap between hinge base & solebar with suitable plasty section

cut out & fix door closing plates

cut through top angle to simulate opening for doors

 

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All plastic bits primed using an all purpose metal primer

bought previously for another job, garden gates I think

 

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Add corner plates as before

Grey acrylic all over

 

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Paint all metal work with rust colour .. burnt sienna?

 

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Paint up wood with corporate colour of dark Turquoise

do metal with black acrylic

when partially dry

blot top of side mainly, with dry cloth for red to show through

 

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Add logos, lettering, & No. -> 87

beside No 95 for comparison, not grubby enough yet

 

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Nearly forgot, add chains & door fixing pegs

chains are essential

or pegs get lost when wagon is turned over

 

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I thought I might ring the changes on the body work, while still keeping the chassis the same

So decided to do a 2 plank version with bow top ends

 

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Basically same procedure as previous wagon

 

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In the paint shop

 

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Checking out the logo in the early morning sun

 

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Alternative logo with trees added to reflect growing importance of timber to the operation, & the MFMT letters added to the logo so as to simplify the sign writing

Wagon No, 93 also added

 

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When I was doing wagon 87,

I thought, I like the look of an open flat with ends on,

would be a very useful wagon when the timber operation turned to paper production,

& needed to move large rolls paper from the mills

flash back

 

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But such a flat would need a much stronger floor than just hardboard

So with a base of thick MDF, reinforced along the top with a brass strip of nearly an 1/8inch thick

and using ali channel instead of angle underneath

and bolted right through

the bolt threads were hidden in short lengths of styrene tube

the effect when done reminding me of the flats used by shipping companies, for container opens for awkward loads

looks strong

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Ends were cut & scored

to be effective the score needs to be a deep one, started by a craft knive, 3 passes?

then widened out into a vee shape with a screw driver blade

a narrow score will fill back in again with paint & could be a waste of time

end strengtheners were cut from 3/4 angle & cut to shape along one web

 

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A bolt was put through each 'plank', as I did not wish to rely on pins & glue here

And ends were bolted with two bolts each to the chassis members

 

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As the floor is MDF, scoring is too hard, so floor was grooved by cutting in mitre saw table on top

& with a hacksaw down sides to give a good clean definition of planking

these bigger longer bolts were countersunk, so tops were filled in with white moddelling putty, to tidy it up

 

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And primered

 

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Painted & partly weathered

 

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Not a lot of room for logos etc etc on this wagon so

logos on ends only with No 97 applied